Archive for March, 2014
- Is the New ‘Bible of Psychiatry’ a Weapon For The Courts?
“While the DSM’s text is introduced with a caveat that it’s only to be used for clinical, educational, and research purposes, the book has another key application: It’s often used as a way to make decisions within governing bodies, in court, and in the criminal justice system.”
- Illness Risk Following Rapid Versus Gradual Discontinuation of Antidepressants
The recurrence risk for depression or panic was much shorter after rapid than after gradual discontinuation of antidepressants. These findings have implications for both clinical management and the design and interpretation of clinical trials.
- NIMH: Neurology Trumps Psychiatry
The director of the NIMH claims the DSM-5 “lacks validity”.
- NIMH Won’t Follow Psychiatry Bubble
The NIMH has been developing its new framework, called the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), since 2009. The system replaces DSM diagnoses with broad research categories based on basic cognitive, behavioural and neural mechanisms.
- Medical Marijuana: Big Pharma’s Campaign to Eliminate State Sanctioned Cannabis Competitors?
- Antipsychotics Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death Risk
“Both the second-generation as well as the first-generation antipsychotic agents proved independently associated with greater than threefold increased risks of sudden cardiac death, according to results from a large, population-based study.” Olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperdal implicated. Abilify- not a large enough control group studied. All classes seem to imply the same risks of SCD- sudden cardiac death.
- A Mental Health Declaration of Independence
A psychologist Bruce Levine discusses the insidious state of affairs between government, medicine, and big pharma – the “psychiatric-pharmaceutical industrial complex” and states the practices involved need to be abolished by law.
- Big Pharma Wants Fish Oil After All…
- Study: Vitamin B Could Curb Dementia
More disappointing news for pharma investors and industry insiders. Doctors discover Vitamin B at pennies per dose seems to dramatically curb symptoms associated with dementia. Two year study.
- ‘The Book of Woe’ – Psychiatry’s Last Stand
An account of the making of the new DSM questions whether psychiatry is — or should be — a science